I was going to post about that. You had Debian running but when I checked their site they say only power8 was supported now. Suse support seems sketchy as you need to pay for updates? I thought maybe IBM maintained a distro but it appears not.

Well, there will be Jessie LTE (I'm still on Wheezy), and we will see.I didn't go to Jessie because of problems with nouveau, but I rarely use it so I didn't follow up and I don't know what the status would be now.

Figures, I mean... not many people use pre-ppc64el. IntelliStation POWERs aren't aging well for support--in both AIX and Linux.

ClassicHasClass wrote:NetBSD time.

Is NetBSD more flexible when it comes to Linux porting than AIX? Otherwise the same problems are inevitable.

astouffer wrote:I was going to post about that. You had Debian running but when I checked their site they say only power8 was supported now. Suse support seems sketchy as you need to pay for updates? I thought maybe IBM maintained a distro but it appears not.

SUSE Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise have dropped support for the IntelliStations long ago, at least the 185, which is limited to these versions only:- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 3